French Prime Minister to meet yellow vest protesters after worst clashes since the uprising of May 1968

French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe is meeting with French political leaders and ‘yellow vests’ this week instead of his scheduled appearance at the COP24 climate change summit in Katowice, Poland.

The Prime Minister plans to announce new “measures” this week in an effort to defuse the protests, the worst of which have not been seen in France for fifty years. As such, he has scheduled a meeting with spokespersons from the Yellow Vest movement for Tuesday afternoon.

The protests have spread throughout the country and spilled over into other countries, protesting the out of touch, elitists in government for country specific reasons. Teenagers even demonstrated in front of blockaded schools, setting rubbish bins alight and calling for Macron to resign.

President Macron, left the G20 summit in Argentina to hold emergency meetings with the prime minister, interior minister and top security service officials at the presidential palace in Paris on Sunday. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s scheduled visit to the National Assembly has been cancelled, as well.

The Yellow Vests believe their message is good and will remain on course. On Sunday, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Melenchon called for new parliamentary elections.

Opinion polls show that two in three French people support the protests, regardless of the violence a handful have commit.